Teresa Baker is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in Western, ND, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Through a mixed media practice combining artificial and natural materials together, Baker creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see and explore within them. The materials, texture, shapes, and color relationships are guided by Baker’s Mandan/Hidatsa culture. In her practice, Baker imbues innate objects with culture and identity.

Baker has had recent solo exhibitions at American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; de boer, Los Angeles, Broadway Gallery, New York; The Arts Club of Chicago; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Pied-à-terre, San Francisco and The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX.

Recent group exhibitions include the Prospect. 6 Triennial, New Orleans, LA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.

Baker is a 2025 Guggenheim fellow, a 2022 Joan Mithcell Fellow, and the recipient of the 2020 Native American Fellowship for Visual Artists at the Ucross Foundation. Baker was a Tournesol Artist-in-Residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts, as well as an artist residence at FOGO Island Arts in Newfoundland, and MacDowell in New Hampshire.. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine have recently acquired the artist's work. Baker received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BA from Fordham University.

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